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CTO / CHTA NEWS

Conrad Higgs to Moderate Caribbean Sustainability Conference in Turks & Caicos

Monday, 14/04/2008

Investing in sustainable tourism policies and products to benefit the Caribbean region will be the focus of an international panel of experts who will present a special session during the 10th Annual Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism, April 30.

The panel will be moderated by Conrad Higgs, CEO of TCInvest (Turks and Caicos Islands Investment Agency), an independent agency in the islands with a mandate to attract new offshore investment, encourage entrepreneurship amongst the residents and provide financing to the local population.

Panelists will examine opportunities for sustainable tourism investment from a variety of perspectives based on their individual expertise.

The April 28 to May 1 conference is organized by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), in collaboration with the Turks & Caicos Tourist Board and the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA). It will be held at Beaches Turks & Caicos Resort & Spa.

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Caribbean Could Pay Heavy Price Because of its Failure to Take Action on Climate Change

Thursday, 03/07/2008
by Linda Straker

The costs of inaction will reach an astonishing 75 percent or more of Gross Domestic Product by 2100 in Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, St. Kitts & Nevis and Turks & Caicos, a latest report on climate change and its overall impact on the Caribbean has revealed.

 

Glamour Destination Management Expands to the Caribbean

Monday, 30/06/2008

Glamour Tours, Jamaica’s leading destination management tour company, recently launched operation in Cayman and Turks & Caicos offering service to the wider Caribbean. The move came after Glamour conducted a reconnaissance of the Caribbean as well as its own operations with an eye for expansion.

 

Turks and Caicos Gets $6.3 Million from Insurance Fund

Thursday, 16/10/2008
by Gay Nagle Myers

The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) made its first payout of approximately $6.3 million to the government of the Turks and Caicos, under the terms of a hurricane policy that was purchased at the start of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.

 

Market Turmoil Stalls Caribbean Resort

Monday, 13/10/2008

The U.S. financial crisis has reached the coasts of the Caribbean –paralyzing work on a 125-room hotel, marina and condominium project on secluded West Caicos island.
Logwood Hotel Development Company is the owner of the unfinished Ritz Carlton Molasses Reef hotel and condominiums in the Turks and Caicos.

 

More International Travelers Making Asia their Destination of Choice

Monday, 14/07/2008

With the fall of the value of the dollar in Europe, the Caribbean is fast becoming the destination of choice for travelers, with countries either using the U.S. dollar as their national currency (such as Turks and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands in addition to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) or offering a fixed exchange rate to the American dollar (including Grenada and other countries using the Eastern Caribbean Island dollar, as well as the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands).

 

More International Travelers Making Asia their Destination of Choice

Monday, 14/07/2008

With the fall of the value of the dollar in Europe, the Caribbean is fast becoming the destination of choice for travelers, with countries either using the U.S. dollar as their national currency (such as Turks and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands in addition to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) or offering a fixed exchange rate to the American dollar (including Grenada and other countries using the Eastern Caribbean Island dollar, as well as the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands).
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National Tour Association Appoints New Chairman

Michele Michalewicz, CTP, a Salt Lake City travel professional and president of Western Leisure, Inc. has been inducted as the 2009 chairman and CEO of the National Tour Association. NTA is the industry’s premier packaged travel association made up of more than 3,000 members from around the globe.

 
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Travel Agents to Be in Higher Demand in 2009

by Sharon Chambers

Peter Yesawich, president and CEO of Ypartnership, expects more consumers to turn to travel agents when planning their trips in 2009. Meanwhile, research conducted by Ypartnership states that the travel intentions of Americans remain strong as 71 percent of active travel households are planning at least one overnight trip during the next six months –the same amount as one year ago.

 
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CTO to Launch Social Network for Agents

by Gay Nagle Myers

The Caribbean Tourism Organization in January will launch online programs aimed at improving its North American chapter system and the way that travel agents do business.

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Golf Resorts Being Upscaled in Puerto Rico

This seaside stretch, a half-hour’s drive east of the airport in San Juan, is not placid in midday. Construction equipment rumbles through the beachfront while workers sweat out installing the marble floors and granite countertops in developer Donald Trump’s latest Caribbean venture.

 
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Antigua Air Traffic Slows Down

A flow control system implemented by air traffic controllers at the VC Bird International Airport in Antigua has been disrupting flights in and out of the island during the Christmas rush.
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